Setem khas Malaysia sempena sambutan Ulang Tahun ke25 Persatuan Orang Buta. Tarikh keluaran November 20, 1976.
Petikan:
The history of blind associations in Kuala Lumpur includes the Malaysian Association for the Blind (MAB). Founded in 191 by the Department of Social Welfare to support the visually impaired.
In fact, the MAB was formed on November 21, 1951 on the initiative of Major D.R. Bridges who was then an officer in the Department of Welfare Services of Malaya. He was a soldier in the British army in Burma and was blinded in the war during the 1940's. After being rehabilitated in England, he was assigned to work as a welfare officer for the blind in Malaya. Subsequently, he became the first Executive Director of the MAB in the 1950's.
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